tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400514519057660990.post5339636191812468509..comments2023-10-19T17:34:21.067+01:00Comments on Jason Arnopp's Bloggery Pokery (RIP): Resurrecting The GhostJason Arnopphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07876042845400963850noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400514519057660990.post-78132278183604663312007-05-15T00:06:00.000+01:002007-05-15T00:06:00.000+01:00Hmm. Now that you mention it, there is something t...Hmm. Now that you mention it, there is something to be said for True Evil. And that's, 'Damn you to eternal hellfire, Scootch!'Andy Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12462842599334822134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400514519057660990.post-33767246197003142002007-05-13T17:53:00.000+01:002007-05-13T17:53:00.000+01:00Robin, well yes, I'd say so. But it depends in wha...Robin, well yes, I'd say so. But it depends in what way the GA has been wronged. If it used to be a cute li'l balloon-holding kid who got thrown down a well by school bullies, then that's 'nil points'. If it used to eat old ladies' faces off for fun, then got kicked to pulp by a rabid mob of townsfolk - and therefore wronged from its own evil perspective - then that's okay by me. ;-)<BR/><BR/>See, there isn't enough Pure Evil around. This is true of action movies, too: I miss Totally Evil & Irredeemable Villains like Die Hard's Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), or Invasion USA's Rostov (Richard Lynch). Yes, that last one is a Chuck Norris film. I like a bit of Chuck Norris...Jason Arnopphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07876042845400963850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400514519057660990.post-30452805176348177182007-05-13T15:44:00.000+01:002007-05-13T15:44:00.000+01:00Can't the GA be wronged and scarily evil? At least...Can't the GA be wronged <B>and</B> scarily evil? At least it provides good motivation for the bad acts.Robin Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18114551140455705344noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400514519057660990.post-54328441814323120302007-05-13T12:30:00.000+01:002007-05-13T12:30:00.000+01:00Oh lord no, Mr Pillock - there's still room for we...Oh lord no, Mr Pillock - there's still room for well-executed examples of each subgenre! And just because I'm not a fan of them, doesn't mean they don't appeal to a large number of people. :) Go for it!Jason Arnopphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07876042845400963850noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400514519057660990.post-67799528790252731272007-05-13T12:15:00.000+01:002007-05-13T12:15:00.000+01:00Bugger, clicked the big orange button before I'd f...Bugger, clicked the big orange button before I'd finished.<BR/><BR/>I was going to say, 'Clearly, I've got some studying to do.' Thanks for the refs.Andy Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12462842599334822134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400514519057660990.post-8405035751681269412007-05-13T12:13:00.000+01:002007-05-13T12:13:00.000+01:00Been thinking about Blair Witch quite a bit recent...Been thinking about Blair Witch quite a bit recently. Scared me senseless. But then Sixth Sense and What Lies Beneath both worked on me. My ghost gland is a little over-active. <BR/><BR/>Judging by your post, you know the genre well. I think I've fallen into the 2) Grown-Up chillder cliches. <BR/><BR/>You also will not be a fan of the ending I've got picked out, since it has the GA turning out to be 'wronged.' <BR/><BR/>ClearlyAndy Phillipshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12462842599334822134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-400514519057660990.post-683459243689462472007-05-12T17:21:00.000+01:002007-05-12T17:21:00.000+01:00A creepy girl with long hair crawling erratically ...A creepy girl with long hair crawling erratically can be disturbing, but it’s nothing compared to the genuinely unsettling scene in the second season of <I>Twin Peaks</I> when Bob climbs over the furniture in a forced perspective set, effectively getting bigger as he heads toward camera. That was just as creepy as fuck.<BR/><BR/>We don’t call them ghost stories anymore do we? Now it has to be “supernatural” – whhhhhoooooooooooooaaaaaahhhh!!! Yikes!<BR/><BR/>Is the problem that few ghost stories nowadays are genuinely scary because of the available movie technology? Some film makers – who obviously have serious issues that need addressing – mix up terror with torture and ladle on viscera and ‘inventive’ deaths.<BR/><BR/><I>Whistle And I'll Come To You</I> and <I>Session 9</I> sound interesting. The former, directed by Jonathan Miller and photographed by Dick Bush, probably had to be inventive and leave it to the audience’s imagination through suggestion because of the crappy BBC budget. That’s another thing... less money should make it all the more effective. <BR/><BR/>And then six years later the BBC broadcast Nigel Kneale’s <I>The Stone Tape</I>. I’ve seen a couple of minutes of it and was seriously freaked out enough to <I>not</I> want to watch the whole thing.<BR/><BR/>Agree with about the Ghostly Antagonists who were once decent coves before they were wronged and went off to exact their revenge. Yeah, right. <BR/><BR/>Actually, I’m trying to remember the ending/explanation of 1963’s <I>The Haunting</I>, Robert Wise’s adaptation of Shirley Jackson's <I>The Haunting of Hill House</I>. But that was certainly a creep-out.<BR/><BR/>Anyone wanting to do a really scary ghost story should study the above, as well as the films of Val Lewton.<BR/><BR/>And then there’s <I>The Blair Witch Project</I>. Oh, dear. Creepy, certainly, but the trio of characters pissed me off by their utter stupidity.<BR/><BR/>If you’re lost in the woods and you come to a river, follow the fucking thing downstream, yeah? Because, as we should know, settlements were built on rivers for drinking water and effective trade routes.Good Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10789861569691613179noreply@blogger.com